September 12, 2012 The New World Disorder As the U.S. retreats, bad actors begin to fill the vacuum. By their nature, foreign policy problems often have a long fuse. The successes of one Administration (Truman, Reagan) sometimes don’t pay off for years (Bush 41), while dangers can simmer until they suddenly explode (al Qaeda). The
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August 11, 2012 Hillary and the Hollowness of ‘People- to-People’ Diplomacy Nearly a million miles in the air. And U.S. power isdiminished. By FOUAD AJAMI EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Yet the passivity of this secretary of state is unprecedented. Mrs. Clinton left no mark on the decision to liquidate the American presence in Iraq—the
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July 17, 2012 Stephens: The Hillary Myth Can anyone name an achievement to justify the adulation of our secretary of state? By BRET STEPHENS Suddenly we’re supposed to believe that Hillary Clinton is a great secretary of state. Eric Schmidt of Google calls her “the most significant secretary of state since Dean Acheson.” A
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BARNESNOBLE.COM BOOK REVIEW – OBAMA’S AMERICA, UNMAKING THE AMERICAN DREAM by Dinesh D’Souza CAN AMERICA SURVIVE FOUR MORE YEARS OF BARACK OBAMA? No, because America as we know it—wealthy, powerful, assertive—is not what Obama wants. He wants a smaller America, a poorer America, and America unable to exert its will, and America happy to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Obama’s Fantasy World Lee Smith July 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 42 The White House wants you to know there’s much more to Obama’s foreign policy than meets the eye. Sure, it might seem that the president has lost the thread, and that America’s interests are suffering in
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June 18, 2012 Much like the Soviet Union in its final years, the Saudis are likely to pass the crown from one old man to another. By KAREN ELLIOTT HOUSE The death and burial this weekend of Saudi Crown Prince Nayef, the second Saudi crown prince to die in less than a year, demonstrates the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Impotence Abroad Lee Smith June 11, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 37 Hillary Clinton says that the Obama administration can’t do anything about Bashar al-Assad. They can’t make him step down, and they can’t stop him from massacring women and children, as he did last week in Houla. “The Syrians
– The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation – http://blog.heritage.org – Morning Bell: The Danger of Article 82 and Obama’s Latest Treaty Posted By Mike Brownfield On May 22, 2012 @ 9:05 am In American Leadership | 63 Comments Back in 1982, President Ronald Reagan decided not to sign a treaty known
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May 20, 2012, 6:20 p.m. ET Are Russians still supposed to act grateful that we no longer live under Brezhnev or Stalin? By GARRY KASPAROV Mr. Kasparov is the leader of the Russian pro-democracy group the United Civil Front and chairman of the New York-based Human Rights Foundation. He resides in Moscow Moscow EXCERPT FROM
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,
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